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it was a reflection of the respect and fear they have about bill clinton. he has continued to set his sights on service. after eight years in office, he had seen the terrible effects of poverty and illness of those living in the developing world. in launching the clinton global initiative, he continues to widen the constellation of challenges in which he has applied his extraordinary talents and energy. limits on religious freedom, every impediment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. after president of the united states, he could only become president of the world. the praise the respect he receives from both sides of the aisle says big volumes about his character. the man he defeated, former president george h. w. bush said, if clinton were the titanic, the iceberg would have sunk. it has less to do with this sharp political acumen and more to do with his deeply held values and ideals. bill clinton believes in an america that is tied in a single garment of destiny. our fates are bound together and we should work together. a man from hope contin
it was a reflection of the respect and fear they have about bill clinton. he has continued to set his sights on service. after eight years in office, he had seen the terrible effects of poverty and illness of those living in the developing world. in launching the clinton global initiative, he continues to widen the constellation of challenges in which he has applied his extraordinary talents and energy. limits on religious freedom, every impediment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of...
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this is something that bill clinton does in 1994 and was lauded for it. carter wanted to reform welfare, the democrats who controlled the congress sink welfare reform, it doesn't even get out of the committee. and is this partially carter's ham-handedness, his inability to deal with congress? yes. but it also shows you a democratic party fundamentally divided among itself. it was in its interests to support its own president, and jimmy carter's bill that he introduced on national television that was one of the major hallmarks of his '76 campaign, it never even saw -- it never even got a vote. liberals didn't have the ability to reform themselves. american liberalism's low point when reagan comes into office. liberals just cannot begin to understand how the country of roosevelt and kennedy could have elected ronald reagan. on one hand, it reinforces, reemphasizes their alienation from their own country and believing that americans are no longer capable of embracing these ideas of social equality and economic opportunity and social justice. so, you know, th
this is something that bill clinton does in 1994 and was lauded for it. carter wanted to reform welfare, the democrats who controlled the congress sink welfare reform, it doesn't even get out of the committee. and is this partially carter's ham-handedness, his inability to deal with congress? yes. but it also shows you a democratic party fundamentally divided among itself. it was in its interests to support its own president, and jimmy carter's bill that he introduced on national television...
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clinton is asked to testify, and bill clinton is asked the question did you ever have sex with a woman named monica? and he said no, i never did. no, i never did, clinton claims he was telling the truth because from his point of view sex is intercourse. regardless, the scandal breaks. scandal breaks. bill tells hillary clinton it's breaking and he said i didn't have sex with her. i tried to do whey could help her. and hillary stands by him 100%. first of all, she doesn't believe it. given the surveillance in the white house she doesn't think it's possible. she believes that the marital therapy they had done in '89, '90 '91 had been sufficient to restore the relationship. bill is very insecure that the point. the first thing bill clinton does after the charges are made, he asked dick morris to do a possible poll on whether the american people will accept infee dellty. and he reports back and said they'll accept it but not perjury. lying under oath. bill said he's going hang in there. you will all recall the first time he's confronted with the question by jim on the evening news and aske
clinton is asked to testify, and bill clinton is asked the question did you ever have sex with a woman named monica? and he said no, i never did. no, i never did, clinton claims he was telling the truth because from his point of view sex is intercourse. regardless, the scandal breaks. scandal breaks. bill tells hillary clinton it's breaking and he said i didn't have sex with her. i tried to do whey could help her. and hillary stands by him 100%. first of all, she doesn't believe it. given the...
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bush and bill clinton. both are past recipients of the liberty medal. the liberty medal ceremony that we celebrate tonight exemplifies that tradition. individuals from across perspectives that have furthered the constitutional values of liberty and equality around the globe. we have three goals for fulfilling our congressional mission. we are the museum, we the people, the national headquarters for civic education. our three goals can be summarized in three words -- visit, learn, debate. as the museum of we the people, starting next year, we will instruct -- to set new gallery of freedom to display one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. it will be the foundation for her years of education and debate on the meaning of the bill of rights to coincide with its anniversary. as a center for civic education, we illuminate the history and contemporary meaning. we convene constitutional conversations among people of all ages. as america's town hall, we are the only institution in the world brings together all sides of the constitutional debate that
bush and bill clinton. both are past recipients of the liberty medal. the liberty medal ceremony that we celebrate tonight exemplifies that tradition. individuals from across perspectives that have furthered the constitutional values of liberty and equality around the globe. we have three goals for fulfilling our congressional mission. we are the museum, we the people, the national headquarters for civic education. our three goals can be summarized in three words -- visit, learn, debate. as the...
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>>> bill clinton's post presidency is unlike any before. >> i had always said that bill clinton would run for president for the rest of his life -- not literally but figuratively -- and i think i underestimated him. i think he is going to run for president of the world for the rest of his life. >> but in january, 2001, as the clinton administration is coming to a close, it is difficult to see what he will do next. the president is only 54 years old, and now saying good-bye to the greatest job he could imagine. >> they may find somebody who can do this job better than me. they will never find anybody who had any more fun doing it than i had. >> this is a person who's had a very purpose-driven life, so he had to find that purpose again. >> daunted perhaps by the thought of leaving office -- >> i want to thank the academy for this tremendous honor. >> he is able to make fun of his situation with this comedy skit he did for the white house correspondents dinner. >> yazhtsee! >> you did it my man. >> in reality his last days in the white house were a frenzy to beat the clock. >> wanted to
>>> bill clinton's post presidency is unlike any before. >> i had always said that bill clinton would run for president for the rest of his life -- not literally but figuratively -- and i think i underestimated him. i think he is going to run for president of the world for the rest of his life. >> but in january, 2001, as the clinton administration is coming to a close, it is difficult to see what he will do next. the president is only 54 years old, and now saying good-bye...
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he stopped at the clinton global initiative for conversation about health care with bill clinton. this is a little less than an hour. >> hillary rodham clinton. [laughter] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you. thank you very much. i have a great pleasure to introduce our next two speakers who are about to have a conversation concerning health care. and i thought hard about how to introduce these two men. [laughter] and the more i thought about it, the more i realized how much they have in common. they are both left-handed. they both love golf, a game that does not often reciprocate the love they put into it. [laughter] they both are fanatic sports fans and go to great lengths to be in front of the tv or on the side of the court or the field. they both are master politicians. each of them has only lost one election. they're both democrats. they have fabulous daughters. they each married far above themselves. [laughter] [applause] and they each love our country. and so, please join me in welcoming number 42 and number 44, bill clinton and president barack obama. [applause] ?him hi
he stopped at the clinton global initiative for conversation about health care with bill clinton. this is a little less than an hour. >> hillary rodham clinton. [laughter] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you. thank you very much. i have a great pleasure to introduce our next two speakers who are about to have a conversation concerning health care. and i thought hard about how to introduce these two men. [laughter] and the more i thought about it, the more i realized how much they...
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bush and bill clinton.-- presidents george eight doug -- resident george h w bush and bill clinton. both are past recipients of the liberty medal. the liberty medal ceremony that we celebrate tonight exemplifies we haveadition. honoredindividuals from across perspectives that have furthered the constitutional values of liberty and equality around the at the national constitution center,we have three goals for fulfilling our congressional mission. we are the museum, we the people, the national headquarters for civic education. our three goals can be summarized in three words -- visit, learn, debate. as the museum of we the people, starting next year, we will-- construct a magnificent new gallery of freedom to display one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. it will be the foundation for her years of education and debate on the meaning of the bill of rights to coincide with 225thniversary.-- anniversary. as a center for civic education, we illuminate the history and contemporary meaning. we convene constitutional conversations among people of all ages. as america's town ha
bush and bill clinton.-- presidents george eight doug -- resident george h w bush and bill clinton. both are past recipients of the liberty medal. the liberty medal ceremony that we celebrate tonight exemplifies we haveadition. honoredindividuals from across perspectives that have furthered the constitutional values of liberty and equality around the at the national constitution center,we have three goals for fulfilling our congressional mission. we are the museum, we the people, the national...
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and then when kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton looks forward and get his picture taken alongside john f. kennedy. he is so proud. he's so proud and he is already dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person that is going to during complete honor to his family. by the age of 17 he's planning to be elected the attorney general of arkansas, then the governor of arkansas and president of the united states. this is something that everyone who knows him knows about and they talk about all the time. it's not from the university of arkansas, she goes to georgetown and from georgetown he becomes the arkansas candidate for the fallujah that goes to oxford. he is an incredible success everywhere but he cannot handle the sustained ongoing relationship with a woman. he's attracted to the kind of women his mother directed him him to that are the duty queens and attractive and that really is where his eyes had been. so this comes back to yale law school. there he meets hillary rodham.
and then when kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton looks forward and get his picture taken alongside john f. kennedy. he is so proud. he's so proud and he is already dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person that is going to during complete honor to his family. by the age of 17 he's planning to be elected the attorney general of arkansas, then the governor of arkansas and president of the united states. this is something that everyone who knows him knows about and they talk...
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when bill clinton trying to argue, it was about compassion. he said this is about coverage and cost. and i'm going to show you why. by the end of the speech, i bet you will hear him try to make the case that americans should care for both of those reasons. >> awho knows if that campaign f the critics of obama care will be as loud in the coming months as this campaign. >> i think that is why clinton is trying to add in the coverage. you can't win this debate -- s democrats can't win this debate on cost alone. >> jessica yellin, thank you for that. >>> coming up, i want to give you updated information on the suicide in his prison cell of ariel castro. you will not believe what the county prosecutor has said about this suicide. the death and passing of that man. let me give you a hint. he is mad. ♪ ♪ so you can have a getaway from what you know. so you can be surprised by what you don't. get two times the points on travel and dining at restaurants from chase sapphire preferred. so you can taste something that wakes up your soul. chase sapphir
when bill clinton trying to argue, it was about compassion. he said this is about coverage and cost. and i'm going to show you why. by the end of the speech, i bet you will hear him try to make the case that americans should care for both of those reasons. >> awho knows if that campaign f the critics of obama care will be as loud in the coming months as this campaign. >> i think that is why clinton is trying to add in the coverage. you can't win this debate -- s democrats can't win...
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and so please join me in welcoming number 42 and number 44, bill clinton and president barack obama. ♪ >>> mr. president. are you interviewing me? >> i've been talking a lot today. >> that was a good thing you did. >> thank you for coming. >> it is wonderful to be back, and let me start just by saying to all the people who have for years now supported the incredible efforts of cgi, thank you. because wherever we travel, all across the globe, we see the impact that it's making every single day. and we're very proud of what you all do. and let me say that we still miss our former secretary of state. and i should add that -- i should add, there is nothing she said that was not true. particularly the part about us marrying up. >> well that brings me to my first health care comment. this is going to be a conversation about domestic and international health and america's role in it. but i want to begin by telling you that i think the first lady has done a great job in this fight against childhood obesity. we have been honored in our foundation to be asked to represent her effort in 18,00
and so please join me in welcoming number 42 and number 44, bill clinton and president barack obama. ♪ >>> mr. president. are you interviewing me? >> i've been talking a lot today. >> that was a good thing you did. >> thank you for coming. >> it is wonderful to be back, and let me start just by saying to all the people who have for years now supported the incredible efforts of cgi, thank you. because wherever we travel, all across the globe, we see the impact...
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president bill clinton. he is giving his speech this hour from little rock, arkansas, on obamacare with another major portion of that law taking effect in a matter of weeks. a month from today to be exact. former president clinton his unofficial role as the secretary of explaining stuff. we will bring you those remarks as they happen. >>> in the meantime, how effective will the secretary of explaining stuff be? it is our topic for the agenda panel today. corey is a contributing editor for the root and igor is of pink progress and laura is a reporter for the huffingtonpost. forgive me if we break away because president clinton has come out to start his address. we want to talk exactly what the purpose of this is. corey, let me start with you because the white house is bringing out the big guns back here at home with president clinton to talk about how this will change american lives for the better. again, this is going to be happening over the next several weeks to try to inform everybody as early enrollment
president bill clinton. he is giving his speech this hour from little rock, arkansas, on obamacare with another major portion of that law taking effect in a matter of weeks. a month from today to be exact. former president clinton his unofficial role as the secretary of explaining stuff. we will bring you those remarks as they happen. >>> in the meantime, how effective will the secretary of explaining stuff be? it is our topic for the agenda panel today. corey is a contributing editor...
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bill clinton talking on friday about the 2014 election. we are already talking about the next campaign when we have two years before voters goal to the polls. no plan and decide to get to these -- voters go to the polls. the plan on either side to these issues. guest: i offered it with jim cooper, a democrat of tennessee. we got 38 votes the first time we did it last year. they are up to 75. senator mcconnell is talking about the fact that we are not interested in raising the rates. at the end of the day, you could take away every private jet and every cayman islands account. it does not get there from here. it is a more complicated problem than that. i think it is time for my former colleagues to stop worrying about the next election. i am living proof. the congress did not end when i retired from the congress after 18 years. it is time for people to reach the conclusion that we need to take care of the next generation and we need to take care of america rather than focusing on how am i going to win in 2014? host: we are talking to steve
bill clinton talking on friday about the 2014 election. we are already talking about the next campaign when we have two years before voters goal to the polls. no plan and decide to get to these -- voters go to the polls. the plan on either side to these issues. guest: i offered it with jim cooper, a democrat of tennessee. we got 38 votes the first time we did it last year. they are up to 75. senator mcconnell is talking about the fact that we are not interested in raising the rates. at the end...
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she and bill clinton met and fell in love at yale. then in 1974, she moved to arkansas to teach making partner at the rose law firm five years later. she kept working after her husband was elected governor of arkansas. she would become the first first lady to do so. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies. >> then came washington. >> this health security card will represent a right of every citizen. and it will give each of us the security of knowing we will be taken care of when we need help. >> her health care initiative came crashing down in 1994. her high visibility came at a cost. but the super woman learned to steel herself in the face of repeated controversy. there was the unexplained suicide of vince foster, and questions about the clintons' whitewater land deal. but the questions did not end there. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> the impeachment threatened to derail team clinton. but hillary was nothing if not resilient. she was elected senator from new york with 56% of the vote. she bec
she and bill clinton met and fell in love at yale. then in 1974, she moved to arkansas to teach making partner at the rose law firm five years later. she kept working after her husband was elected governor of arkansas. she would become the first first lady to do so. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies. >> then came washington. >> this health security card will represent a right of every citizen. and it will give each of us the security of knowing we will be...
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clinton lopes forward and gets his picture taken with, alongside of john f. kennedy. he's so proud. he's so proud. and he already is dedicate today the idea that he is -- dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who is going to bring complete honor to the family. he already, by the age of 17, is planning to be elected attorney general of arkansas, then governor of arkansas and then president of the united states. this is something which everyone who knows him knows about, because he talks about it all the time. he does not go to the university of arkansas, he goes to georgetown. and from georgetown he becomes the arkansas candidate for the rhodes fellowship and goes to oxford. he is an incredible success
clinton lopes forward and gets his picture taken with, alongside of john f. kennedy. he's so proud. he's so proud. and he already is dedicate today the idea that he is -- dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who is going to bring complete honor to the family. he already, by the age of 17, is planning to be elected attorney general of arkansas, then governor of arkansas and then president of the united states. this is something which everyone who knows him knows about, because...
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susan, we talk about bill clinton. the other news of the morning is the idea that not only are we hearing from the two of them today but may be hearing this pair could become a traveling road show and they certainly want bill clinton on the road. the white house asking and bill clinton agreeing to be the secretary of explaining the health care law to red states it looks like. >> i can't believe that president obama loves the idea he has to turn to president clinton to explain the health care law. >> you were just stunned by some of the results of that poll. >> 4 in 10 americans think it's been repelled. that is a failure to respond to the republican attacks to make the argument, not only is it not repelled but here is what we are going to do. big test in october 1st. will healthy people go to them and buy insurance? >> interesting to see if the president mentions health care in his remarks today. i think he might as sort of he might fit it in. i had always heard he was somewhat jealous bill clinton can somehow do a spe
susan, we talk about bill clinton. the other news of the morning is the idea that not only are we hearing from the two of them today but may be hearing this pair could become a traveling road show and they certainly want bill clinton on the road. the white house asking and bill clinton agreeing to be the secretary of explaining the health care law to red states it looks like. >> i can't believe that president obama loves the idea he has to turn to president clinton to explain the health...
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former president, bill clinton. the man president obama called the secretary of explaining stuff just wrapped up a speech at his own presidential library in arkansas to taut the benefits of the affordable care act. this comes after they're finding new and creative ways to avoid implementing the law and providing health insurance to their residents. seven states are refusing to enforce the law which includes provisions of barring insurance companies from rejecting patients with pre-existing conditions. missouri is so opposed that they have a ballot measure barring any state or government official to help implement it. the reason for the resistance. beyond the symbolic appeals of the aca around 42, as of june outside groups have spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to defeat the law. just today they had a countdown clock to the obama care train wreck. the first day of the enrollment period for 40 million uninsured americans. given all of this, it's little wonder that four in ten americans believe the law has bee
former president, bill clinton. the man president obama called the secretary of explaining stuff just wrapped up a speech at his own presidential library in arkansas to taut the benefits of the affordable care act. this comes after they're finding new and creative ways to avoid implementing the law and providing health insurance to their residents. seven states are refusing to enforce the law which includes provisions of barring insurance companies from rejecting patients with pre-existing...
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he cannot tell us to do more. >> bill clinton was still president. you were in the midst of negotiations and you were close with arafat to getting a deal at that time. >> yeah, we were in a way close, but the gaps, you know, it cannot be measured only by the width but only by the depth. it was very wide but very deep. >> what did you think nelson mandela? >> one of the greatest statesman of the 20th century. left imprints on hundreds of millions and changed history as a result of being consistent, determined in a way a benign zealot. he was zealot for his case but a great kind of mind and open minded, could carry the burden of not just is on the to lead but also responsibility to be self-disciplined once he won. >> the secretary of state john kerry has been meeting with the prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel and he says that any son mandela should be sort of an indicator to the israelis, to the palestinians, in coming to an agreement, maybe he could influence you. are you any closer at all right now base on secretary kerry's involvement in t
he cannot tell us to do more. >> bill clinton was still president. you were in the midst of negotiations and you were close with arafat to getting a deal at that time. >> yeah, we were in a way close, but the gaps, you know, it cannot be measured only by the width but only by the depth. it was very wide but very deep. >> what did you think nelson mandela? >> one of the greatest statesman of the 20th century. left imprints on hundreds of millions and changed history as a...
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this was good enough for bill clinton in 1996. >> i'm going to ask you if you agree with bill clinton on health care. you have no doubt that your family got help from farm subsidies. how can you justify cutting food stamps from people that need it but give farm subsidies to people that you don't require to go out and receive anything. >> i didn't receive those subsidies you do mention. but in the rest of the farm bill we do make it deductions to payments that are entirely eliminated in the bill. so we've taken those reductions. but, again, when you have 47 million americans on food stamps, there are 3 to 4 million americans that are adults receiving food stamps who can work and are doing absolutely nothing to receive them. i don't think that's compassion. i think that's actually doing them a disservice. >> in the bill that you're sending over to the senate, those that will get farm subsidies reduced or not, what are you requiring they do to get farm payments. >> direct payments are entirely eliminated. those that you identified are payments that will go away under the house and senate
this was good enough for bill clinton in 1996. >> i'm going to ask you if you agree with bill clinton on health care. you have no doubt that your family got help from farm subsidies. how can you justify cutting food stamps from people that need it but give farm subsidies to people that you don't require to go out and receive anything. >> i didn't receive those subsidies you do mention. but in the rest of the farm bill we do make it deductions to payments that are entirely eliminated...
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. >> rose: talk to us about bill clinton. i'm serious. >> well,. >> rose: he is a man who came, you didn't run, you chose not to run. your son had been hurt. >> yeah. >> rose: had been injured seriously. and you chose not to run in 1992, having run in '88. he ran, won the nomination, chose -- then the two of you governed and you were very effective, as vice president, give answer lot of responsibility. but tell me about him and your relationship with him, how much it was influenced by what happened to him in the second term. >> what are you getting at, charlie? >> rose: i'm getting-- (laughter) >> no, i'm kidding, i'm kidding. there are many ways i can answer this question without even going there so done worry. (laughter) >> i think that he is-- . >> rose: most gifted politician of our time. >> i would say that, sure. and most people would say that. it's a natural at it. and it was the working relationship that he and i established was really a very special relationship that i think was good for the country. >> rose: you wer
. >> rose: talk to us about bill clinton. i'm serious. >> well,. >> rose: he is a man who came, you didn't run, you chose not to run. your son had been hurt. >> yeah. >> rose: had been injured seriously. and you chose not to run in 1992, having run in '88. he ran, won the nomination, chose -- then the two of you governed and you were very effective, as vice president, give answer lot of responsibility. but tell me about him and your relationship with him, how much...
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yeah, thanks for nothing, bill clinton. at the highest levels of american politics, gay rights were toxic and basically everybody was terrible on the issue. it just seemed like it was never going to change. that was not that long ago. but now that has very much changed. not only do equal rights now win when they get statewide votes, but the campaign manager for that bush re-election effort in 2004, the re-election effort which used that national anti-gay ballot measure strategy, that campaign manager has, himself, now come out as gay and apologized and is spending his time now working to flip more states into supporting equal rights. steve schmidt, a strategist for that exploitively anti-gay george w. bush re-election effort in 2004 now works for aclu nationally as a pro-gay marriage republican organizer. now in 2013, bill clinton's defense of marriage act is gone. you have to check your watch to see how many states are recognizing equal marriage because the number is increasing seemingly every day. and then today, this aft
yeah, thanks for nothing, bill clinton. at the highest levels of american politics, gay rights were toxic and basically everybody was terrible on the issue. it just seemed like it was never going to change. that was not that long ago. but now that has very much changed. not only do equal rights now win when they get statewide votes, but the campaign manager for that bush re-election effort in 2004, the re-election effort which used that national anti-gay ballot measure strategy, that campaign...
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former president bill clinton posting this picture. a hand shake and the words, i will never forget my friend, madi madiba. and on facebook, president george w. bush, president mandela was one of the forces for freedom and equality of our time. he bore his burdens with dignity and grace. and our world is better off because of his example. it's the type of worldwide experience that draws young and old, black and white, to share feelings. charlize theron. my thoughts and love go out to the mandela family. rest in peace, madiba. you will be missed. but your impact on this world will last forever. spike lee posted this picture with a simple message. and then, there's this one from nasa. intergalactic reaction from the space shuttle, posting a picture of mandela's beloved south africa. and the crowds continue to gather in front of mandela's home, perhaps the day's most poignant message from his own twitter account. death is something inevitable. when a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest
former president bill clinton posting this picture. a hand shake and the words, i will never forget my friend, madi madiba. and on facebook, president george w. bush, president mandela was one of the forces for freedom and equality of our time. he bore his burdens with dignity and grace. and our world is better off because of his example. it's the type of worldwide experience that draws young and old, black and white, to share feelings. charlize theron. my thoughts and love go out to the...
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introduce to you president bill clinton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you for the walk down memory lane you gave me. i want to say thank you for presenting your questions. i told her she could ask whatever she wanted. great thingthe about being a former president is you can say whatever you please. [laughter] the sad thing is that no one has to care anymore. [laughter] thank my friends who are here, and georgetown classmates, members of my ministration, people i have known for many years. sometimes in both categories. i'm delighted to be back here. the speeches i gave at setgetown in the late 1991 the stage for my presidential campaign and for what i would do if i got elected. they were important not only for the campaign, but for me. it forced all of us who are trying to win that election to really think about where we were, where we wanted to go, how we were supposed to get there. tohought it might be helpful and this talkere is mainly directed to you. i understand you
introduce to you president bill clinton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you for the walk down memory lane you gave me. i want to say thank you for presenting your questions. i told her she could ask whatever she wanted. great thingthe about being a former president is you can say whatever you please. [laughter] the sad thing is that no one has to care anymore. [laughter] thank my friends who are here, and georgetown classmates, members...
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and bill clinton saying politically you need to be careful with this. >> bill clinton grew up in arkansas and knows this kind of stuff in his bones. he knows the danger that it can present to the democratic party. they have lost mid terms in the past because of the gun issue. al gore, clinton talked specifically about al gore taking an unpopular side of a gun issue in colorado, lost colorado and lost the presidency. also democrats are concerned about this issue for 2014. in the senate you have red state democrats up for reelection in alaska and arkansas and montana, in south dakota. and in laz. a bunch of red states and they are very worried about taking positions that will lose the seats. >> take a look at a couple of polls because the numbers are interesting. this one says in the debate on guns which is more important to protect they asked the people that were polled. 51% said the constitutional right to own a gun and 40% said citizens to be protected from gun violence was more important to them. take a look at one more of these. and this one is the newspapers publishing the names and a
and bill clinton saying politically you need to be careful with this. >> bill clinton grew up in arkansas and knows this kind of stuff in his bones. he knows the danger that it can present to the democratic party. they have lost mid terms in the past because of the gun issue. al gore, clinton talked specifically about al gore taking an unpopular side of a gun issue in colorado, lost colorado and lost the presidency. also democrats are concerned about this issue for 2014. in the senate you...
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the obama administration hasn't done that pivot to the middle that bill clinton did i, which is more kennedy-esque. could he learn anything from it and do something? >> i think he ought to given where he is right now. he's in the 30s in most polls and still has more than three years as president. he's got to try to engineer a comeback. one way to do it would be to look at the substance of john f. kennedy's administration. not just the rhetoric. he was a mixture of philosophies, as you know, laura. he was liberal in some areas and eventually getting liberal on civil rights. he was conservative on others. you mentioned the tax cut policy but also his economic policies generally were rather conservative. he was concerned about budget busting, for example. and then the muscular foreign policy he believed in a tough posture towards america's enemies. it was a mixture of philosophies and that's how to keep a bipartisan coalition behind you or at least your own party plus independence. >> when you look at somebody like a bill clinton, he grew up in arkansas, obviously governor of arkansas,
the obama administration hasn't done that pivot to the middle that bill clinton did i, which is more kennedy-esque. could he learn anything from it and do something? >> i think he ought to given where he is right now. he's in the 30s in most polls and still has more than three years as president. he's got to try to engineer a comeback. one way to do it would be to look at the substance of john f. kennedy's administration. not just the rhetoric. he was a mixture of philosophies, as you...
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>>> stephen colbert lands an interview with bill clinton. this is going to be fun. >> here are the rules. if you start filibustering, i will cut you off. because we all know i could ask you how you're doing and 15 minutes later you're talking about micro loans to sumatra. >> so true. colbert even got clinton to open up a twitter account, sort of. >>> these people knocking on doors on capitol hill, the victims and their families or families of the victims could actually do some good. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. grandfathers secret recipe, they've been smoking for hours. how many hours exactly? [ friend #2 ] what kind of spices do you use in your rub? what part of secret recipe don't you understand? i've got to go turn off the smoker. your grandfather would be proud of you! he didn't make these. mm-mmm. ♪ ok. [ male announcer ] new oscar mayer carving board pulled pork, part of the complete line of carving board meats. it's not your everyday food. it's oscar mayer. part of the complete line of carving board meats. aw, sho
>>> stephen colbert lands an interview with bill clinton. this is going to be fun. >> here are the rules. if you start filibustering, i will cut you off. because we all know i could ask you how you're doing and 15 minutes later you're talking about micro loans to sumatra. >> so true. colbert even got clinton to open up a twitter account, sort of. >>> these people knocking on doors on capitol hill, the victims and their families or families of the victims could...
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>>> stephen colbert lands an interview with bill clinton. this is going to be fun. >> here are the rules. if you start filibustering, i will cut you off. because we all know i could ask you how you're doing and 15 minutes later you're talking about micro loans to sumatra. >> so true. colbert even got clinton to open up a twitter account, sort of. >>> these people knocking on doors on capitol hill, the victims and their families or families of the victims could actually do some good. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> a new ppp poll finds senator mitch mcconnell, we just talked about him, his job approval is under water, as i said. 36% of kentucky voters approve his job. 54% do not approve. these numbers make him the most unpopular senator in america. as measured by ppp's polling. we'll be right back. look at them kids. [ sigh ] they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched mov
>>> stephen colbert lands an interview with bill clinton. this is going to be fun. >> here are the rules. if you start filibustering, i will cut you off. because we all know i could ask you how you're doing and 15 minutes later you're talking about micro loans to sumatra. >> so true. colbert even got clinton to open up a twitter account, sort of. >>> these people knocking on doors on capitol hill, the victims and their families or families of the victims could...
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this is something the bill clinton does in 1994. he was lauded for it. carter wanted to perform welfare, then -- democrats controlled congress. does not even get out of committee. it is partially part of his inability to deal with congress, but it also shows the of the democratic party fundamentally divided. it was in the democratic party's interest to reform welfare, support is on president. jimmy carter's bill that he introduced on national television was one of the major hallmarks of the '76 campaign, it never even saw -- it never even got about. it is a revelation that liberals did not have the ability to reform themselves. the low point when reagan comes into office. liberals just cannot begin to understand how a country of roosevelt and kennedy could have elected ronald reagan. on one hand it reinforces, reemphasize is their alienation from their own country in believing that americans are no longer capable of embracing these ideas of social equality and economic opportunity and social justice. so, you know, the idea of reagan in the white house ju
this is something the bill clinton does in 1994. he was lauded for it. carter wanted to perform welfare, then -- democrats controlled congress. does not even get out of committee. it is partially part of his inability to deal with congress, but it also shows the of the democratic party fundamentally divided. it was in the democratic party's interest to reform welfare, support is on president. jimmy carter's bill that he introduced on national television was one of the major hallmarks of the '76...
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then bill clinton talks to a house of democrats. on the next "washington journal" a look at the automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect on march 1, half are from the pentagon. we'll discuss that with ray lock perp and a conversation with the use of legal force. then we'll talk with judith about the 20th answer verse of the medical leave act. "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> having observed a steady improvement and thing with being of our citizens, i can report to you that our union is good. >> once again and keeping with time honored tradition on the state of the union and i'm pleased to report that america is much improved. there is good reason that the improvement will continue. >> my duty tonight is to report on the state of the union. not the state of your government but of our american community and to set forth our responsibilities in the words of our founders to form a more perfect union. the state of the union is strong. >> as we gather tonight our nation is at war, our country is in recession
then bill clinton talks to a house of democrats. on the next "washington journal" a look at the automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect on march 1, half are from the pentagon. we'll discuss that with ray lock perp and a conversation with the use of legal force. then we'll talk with judith about the 20th answer verse of the medical leave act. "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> having observed a steady improvement and thing with being of our...
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clinton or more appropriately today no barack obama. this week as the legacy of that turned reagan indoors president barack obama a democrat will put forward his budget proposal that includes massive cuts to social security that reagan and thatcher could have only dreamed about cuts that will lead to seniors losing thousands of dollars in benefits and the u.k. margaret thatcher spoke of why she was pushing this radical transformative agenda and her rationale for all of it was ripped right from the pages of an unwritten iran novel she said about her country quote i think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand i have a problem it is the government's job to come with it to cope with it or i have a problem i will go and get a grant to cope with it i am homeless the government must house me and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society there is no such thing there are individual men and women and their families and no government can do anything except through peopl
clinton or more appropriately today no barack obama. this week as the legacy of that turned reagan indoors president barack obama a democrat will put forward his budget proposal that includes massive cuts to social security that reagan and thatcher could have only dreamed about cuts that will lead to seniors losing thousands of dollars in benefits and the u.k. margaret thatcher spoke of why she was pushing this radical transformative agenda and her rationale for all of it was ripped right from...
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i'm still coming down from last night's interview with bill clinton. i made prerecorded history when i got the president to join twitter and tweet using the handle prez billy jeff. just 24 hours as of 7:00 he has over 88,000 followers. [cheers and applause] boom! that is called the colbert bump, mr. president. [cheers and applause] welcome to the big time, my friend. the next time you are visiting one of your agricultural projects in uganda the villagers are going to go, hey, you are that dude from colbert. we ready for that. folks you want to follow the clinton foundation twitter feed @clintontweet. i know it's no perz billy jeff but it's a nonprofit. we conducted our historic chat in st. louis site of this queer's clinton global initiative university where every year college students present projects that make the world a better place. for instance, a few years ago jessica matthews april tended cgiu and designed a soccer ball that generates electricity for people in emerging economies. after 30 minutes of play it can power a light for three hours. be
i'm still coming down from last night's interview with bill clinton. i made prerecorded history when i got the president to join twitter and tweet using the handle prez billy jeff. just 24 hours as of 7:00 he has over 88,000 followers. [cheers and applause] boom! that is called the colbert bump, mr. president. [cheers and applause] welcome to the big time, my friend. the next time you are visiting one of your agricultural projects in uganda the villagers are going to go, hey, you are that dude...
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bill clinton and his family will be going to south africa. i talk to president clinton today about his immense administration. i want you to listen to what he said about you the day after that tour of robben island back in 1998. >> the president is one of the most decent men i have come across, and he has got a thick skin, strong nerves. he is not the type of person who squeals, and hi knows that i hold him in the highest regards, because even before he was president, he was very generous in assisting us to ensure we were victorious. >> he said in that interview with me, you're not a person who squeals. when you hear that now from him, what goes through your mind? >> that he helped me to be that kind of man, that he inspired me before i knew him, and that after we became friends, every minute we spent together, even when we were having the occasional argument from our positions as president of the united states and president of south africa, where he always held his ground and did what he thought was right, we never stopped being friends. he
bill clinton and his family will be going to south africa. i talk to president clinton today about his immense administration. i want you to listen to what he said about you the day after that tour of robben island back in 1998. >> the president is one of the most decent men i have come across, and he has got a thick skin, strong nerves. he is not the type of person who squeals, and hi knows that i hold him in the highest regards, because even before he was president, he was very generous...